Ornamental pile fabric and method of producing the same



sept@ 1923. I [1,467,136 s. E. cREAsEY QRNAMENTAL PILE FABRIC AND METHOD OF' PRODUCING THE SAME Filed Jan. 1s, 192s `or predetermined patterns.

Patented Sept. 4, i923.

NITED STATES;

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. ,SAMUEL E. cRnAsEY, or ALFRED, MAIN, AssIeNoR To SANFORD MiL'Ls, or

sANroRD, MAINE, A CORPORATION or MAINE.

ORNAMENTAL PILE FABRIC METHOD 0F PRODUCING THE SAME.

Application led'J'anuary 13, 1923.` Serial No; 612,401.

To aZZwwmvlt may concern.

Be it known that I, SAMUEL E. CRnAsEY,

a citizen of the United States, residing at,

Alfred, county of York, State of Maine, have invented an Improvement in Ornamental Pile Fabrics and Methods of Producing the Same, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specication, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

- This. invention relates to an .ornamental pile fabric and the method of producing such a fabric.

The object of the invention is the produc= tion of a pile fabric in which a striking and peculiar ornamental effect is produced by securing a plurality of color contrasts in patterns resulting from differences height of the pile and from colors applied to the areas of pile of the same height and in. particular to the areas of the high p-ile.

The nature and objects of the invention will appear more fully from the accompanying description and drawings and will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings;

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a section of a piece of fabric made in accordance with the-princi les of the invention;r

ig. 2 is a detail enlarged and in cross section taken on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1.

In carrying out the principles of this invention the fabric is first woven `to present at its face a relatively high pile and this pile ,is cut to form areas of relatively low cut pile with these areas arranged in -any desired These operations may be performed by any of the means and using any lof the materials familiar to those skilled in the textile art.

The invention is particularly appropriate or advantageous in connection with the manufacture of what is generally known as mohair, plush or velvetl and as illustrating a simple and preferred f orm of the invention such a fabric will-be described and is in a general way illustrated. This fabric usually comprises a back made up of interwoven warp and filling of suitable material having further interwoven therewith a pile lling of mohair which when cut projects from the interwoven back and forms a pile face. Such fabrics are woven onvarious types'of looms and with various concatenations of the warp and filling threads and the pile is cut by various methods and devices. In the construction illustrated in detail in Fig. 2 the back of the fabric is essentially the fabric by the weaving operation. As an example if the warp 1 is of a gold color and the' filling 2 of a red color a pleasing reddish-gold efl'ect is produced at the immediate face of the interwoven back.

The pile warp, which I herein assume to i 1,467,136 -11N-'r be of mohair for the purposes of illustration,

proceeds or subsequently and as a result the 'entire'face of the fabric presents tufts of mohaii',warp such as shownat 3 in Fig.2.

These tufts usually fluff' out so that the entire face of the fabricformed by the cut surface of the pile is substantially homogene-l ous but of such a character that the color effect-of the backv shows through. l The mohair or pile vwarp may beof any desired color. For example it maybe of a grayish or natural tint which allows the reddishgold of the back to be visible.

The pile face, in carrying out this invention is cut at different heights. so as to form areas of high and low pile arranged in any desired or predetermined pattern.

vThe different heights of the pile are illustrated at 3 and 4 in Fig, 2. In Fig. 1,.' in order to illustrate the principles of the 1nvention, an arbitrary and somewhat conventionalized pattern. is shown in which the4 white or plain portions 5 represent thearas of low eut pile, while all remaining portions 'represent the areas of high cut pile. Those portions of Athe high cut pile areas shown stippled as at 6 represent high cut pile areas in which the color of the pile itself is the same as the' color of the low cut pile. The pattern thus produced by the areas of high y cut pile and low cut pile is particularly dis- Y tinguishable by the different extents to which the back of the fabric shows through. 'F or example in the selected illustration theJ y and this preferred form of'the invention is illustrated y in the drawing.-

More than one pattern may thus be printed on the highpile areas with the same orwith additional contrasting colors and the extent to which the areas of the high cut pile are thus covered with a pattern or patterns of contrasting colorsmay be varied as desired, thus enabling a very striking novel and ornamental effect to be produced. As illustrating something of the principle of the invention in this respect there are shown in Fig. l a plurality of patterns formed by the use of four contrasting colors. The dark horizontal shade portions 7 are assumed to be of dark blue, the light hori Zontal shaded portions 8 of light blue, the dark oblique sha-ded portions 9 of dark brown and the light oblique shaded portions 10 of light brown and further it willbe seen that certainv areas of the high cut pile are left uncoveredas indicated by the stippled portions 6. v

The printing of thev colors 'upon t-he high cut pilel areas may be performed by hand', by block printing, or by any 'other' suitable method and the patterns employed may bevaried to contrast or to harmonize with the patterns presented by the relative areas of high cut and low cut pile.

' y The combination of'eifects thus produced by the areas of high cut and low cut pile, by the colored back, by thedifl'erentl extents to which the colored back shows throughV the' areas of high cut and low out pile, by

vthe extent to which the areas of high cutv pile are covered'with color, by the number and arrangement of the colors' on the highcut -pile is practically endless but in all cases produces a novel, striking and'ornamental effect due to the embodiment of the prin-l ci les `of the invention.-

aving thus described the invention what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Ratent, is;

l. The method of producing an ornaf mental pile fabric which consists in weaving the pile fabric with a back and with` pile of a color contrasting with the color of the `back,. cutting the pile to formareas of high and low pile arranged in a' predeter mined pattern distinguishable by the different extents to which the back of the fabricf shows through, and printing upon the areas of the high pile a second pattern lin a colo-r contrasting therewith.

2.*The method of producing an ornamental pile fabric which consists in weaving the pile fabric with a back and with pile. f

of a'color contrasting with the color of the back, cutting the pile to form areas of high and low pile arranged in a predetermined pattern vdistinguishable by the different extents to which the,v back of the fabric shows through, and printing upon portions of the areas of the high' pile according to a prede- -termined pattern a plurality-of areas of colors contrasting with each other and with the color of the high pile.

3. The method of producing an orna u mental pile fabric which consists in weaving the pile fabric with aback and withy pile of a color contrasting with the color ofthe. back, cutting the pile to form areas.

of `high and low pile arranged in a predetermined pattern distinguishable by 'the' different extents to which the back of the fabric lshows through, and printing 'upon the areas'of pile 'of thesame height according to a predetermined kpattern a pluralityv of areas Vof colors contrasting'with each other and with the color of the high pile.

et. An ornamental pile fabric comprising an interwoven back, a pile face interwoven with and projecting from the back and of a color contrasting with that of the back,

" the pile face presenting areas of low cut and areas of'highjcut pile arranged in a pattern with the areas of the high out pile presenting thereon colored contrasting areas accprding to a second pattern whereby .is produced an ornamental effect due to the different patterns of contrasting colors and to the different extents to which the color of the back sho-ws through the areas of low cut and high cutl pile. y

lin testimony whereof, v'have signed my name to this specification.

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